Bonus points to this entry- I had a copy of shimeng.dll from Platform Builder 4.2 sat on my desktop, and when I ran the calculator it popped up with an error message telling me it couldn't load the dll.

Bonus points to this entry- I had a copy of shimeng.dll from Platform Builder 4.2 sat on my desktop, and when I ran the calculator it popped up with an error message telling me it couldn't load the dll.

WTF?!?!?!?

Right, EXTRA bonus points because I've now looked through the code and I STILL can't figure out why, how or even where it's trying to load that dll. Anyone?

I entered too many digits too, reached the wooden table, and it crashed. Windows offered to send Microsoft an error report so I said OK. I hope that it helps someone there.... Or that someone reads it....

I love the way the bottom row of buttons, with the important zero, decimal point and equal, is almost off screen. You can't scroll it either. (It's not a bug. it's a feature.) This has got to be the greatest UI (or ewww) I've ever seen.

Ouch, this thing is multithreaded - the more calculations you do, the more threads it spawns, each one consuming as much CPU time as possible. Wouldn't have imagined something could make a mouse pointer stutter on a quad-core...

I like the fact that it's using Peano arithmetic. But the author should have used C++ operators to hide the fact, concealing all the code in a header file deep in a subsubdirectory that's included in a tortuous way. With that, I'm sure total confusion could have been achieved.

I started this multiplying a 3-digit number by a 5-digit number, and when I left for lunch 20 minutes later it was still going. When I got back, it had finished. Woo!

Ogawd! this is all making me feel soooo inadequate. Aside from sizing issues [I had to hide my taskbar to even get to the + or = buttons] I have been totally unable to reproduce any of the memory leaks or high CPU loads others have referred to...oh bingo! there we go! It took a multi-digit denominator, and then went to 98% CPU. Still no excessive memory usage, though. I did have to force shutdown, so that's a good WTF.

Oh, the nostalgia. I used to have the calculator in the picture in high school. I can't understand why Terry didn't implement the magnificent feature of solving linear 3 equation groups. That feature was completely useless, had the most confusing user interface ever and still caused the calculator to be confiscated in university entrance exams.